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DocuSign Envelope ID:A8E51 BF8-6EBC-4632-A21 F-FE02EF5B133D <br /> openbroadband <br /> Backgrounds of the Open Broadband, LLC Founders: <br /> Alan Fitzpatrick, CEO, has over 25-years' experience (LinkedIn Profile: <br /> https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanfitzpatrick): <br /> • COO of DC74 Data Centers in Charlotte, NC, providing internet service from 50Mb to <br /> IOGb to business customers in the greater Charlotte region. While at DC74 Alan <br /> spearheaded the build of the region's first internet peering exchange. <br /> • Global VP of Network Services at ACN in Concord NC. Led the engineering and <br /> operations functions for the company serving residential users in the U.S., Canada, Puerto <br /> Rico, and 14 countries in Europe. <br /> • Senior Vice President of US LEC Corp., a competitive telecom provider based in <br /> Charlotte NC, serving internet to business customers in 27 cities, from Miami to New <br /> York to New Orleans. Alan led the Engineering,NOC, and Vendor Management <br /> functions for the publicly traded company. <br /> • Prior to US LEC Alan was VP of Engineering for NET-tel Communications in <br /> Washington DC, Director of Engineering for CTC Communications in Concord,NC, and <br /> a variety of functions in engineering and operations for AT&T in Georgia and Florida <br /> servicing both residential and business internet customers. <br /> Kent Winrich, CTO, has over 25-years' experience (Linkedln profile: <br /> htlps://www.linkedin.com/in/kLnlwnfich): <br /> • Director of Broadband and Infrastructure at Fibrant (City of Salisbury municipal <br /> network),providing internet service from IOMb to IOGb to residential, educational and <br /> business customers in Salisbury NC. <br /> • Senior Engineer at Hibernia Media. Responsible for the complete European Fiber Optic <br /> Network for Hibernia, from Dublin to Moscow, working with large data users, and <br /> provided service from 50Meg to 10OGigs. Kent led the worldwide engineering team as <br /> well as planning for bandwidth needs throughout Europe. <br /> • Head of Broadcast Services at Vidyo. The VidyoCast division of Vidyo offered <br /> broadcast quality video encoding over the open internet. He was responsible for all <br /> connectivity and engineering worldwide, and performed in countries such as India,New <br /> Zealand, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, and throughout Europe and the US. <br /> • Director of Engineering at Clear Channel. Kent was in charge of all transmission <br /> facilities from high power AM stations, to FM to Microwave, as well as all real estate <br /> assets and all things technical. He was also responsible for interacting with the FCC to <br /> ensure all FCC rules were followed and was responsible for every FCC license. <br /> • Kent also has experience at BAE Systems, where he was stationed at Ft Bragg, <br /> performing propagation predictions, antenna design, as well as training soldiers on RF <br /> and electrical theory. <br /> Open Broadband,LLC I PO Box 723.Waxhaw,NC 28173 1 704-237-0102 <br /> www.openbb.net <br />